A locked arch in the back is critical to performing a well-timed and well-directed lift, however sometimes lifters have trouble establishing a locked enough arch from the start, especially at heavy weights. One solution to this is to deadlift and then trace your path down to your start and then touch and go. The deadlift presets the back so that you are locked during the touch and go (and overtime conditions the lifter to set this kind of locked back from the very beginning). Here we see 2014 Jr